I just contacted a tabloid TV show with a story

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I titled it 'Speedhump bungle'. In my explanation I said, 'Council contract workers put speedhumps in our street 10 weeks ago. This morning, they're ripping them up again'. Then I submitted the story on line. Apparently they don't follow up every story idea they receive, but I'll let you know how it goes.

― thee music mole, Monday, 14 February 2005 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate speed bumps. Good riddance.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 February 2005 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hence your name, I assume: for a plain is indeed pleasant when there are no bumps.

― thee music mole, Monday, 14 February 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i like speed bemps. they make people slow down, this keeps people alive

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

oh... so... you mean when approaching speed bumps you're not supposed to make your car go as fast as possible in the attempt of performing an insane stunt??

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

If only driving were more like F-Zero.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I was thinking ExciteBike actually, or GTA3.

"Speed" Bump, if you think about it is quite a misleading name, isn't it?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I hate speed bumps.

i like speed bemps.

I'm ambivalent about speed bimps.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer the more poetic "sleeping policemen"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Make streets cobbled again instead.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Edinburgh still has lots of cobbled streets, mostly in the city centre but some further out. They don't slow drivers down, just increase the traffic noise hugely.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Cobblers to cobbles

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

they should put actual sleeping policemen on the side of the road, if the cars go fast enough to wake them up, the cars get a ticket

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

well, the driver of the car gets one

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

speed bumps also increase traffic noise. had one just up the road from previous flat and was a bus route and the increased noise from all the vehicles accelerating away from it was horrendous.

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Policemen, as a species, being more sensitive to velocity than sound

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i really like that thing i saw on TV the other day that apparently in some town centres in the Netherlands (i think) they have taken to remove all the road signs, road markings and traffic lights, and created this chaotic "shared space" that's used by pedestrians and cars - the idea is to make the place as "hazardous" as possible that you just HAVE to slow down, and actually pay attention to what's going on.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What if they want you to be on TV Col? Will you appear as yourself?

― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost it's more a case of cars, as a species, tend to pronouce more noise when the engines are working harder (and that engines as a species mostly make cars go faster as they work harder, there is the issue of gears too of course but this actually sleeping policemen idea is still in development stage here)

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost PLEASE dress up as Momus if you're going on tv!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

they have taken to remove all the road signs, road markings and traffic lights, and created this chaotic "shared space" that's used by pedestrians and cars

I am delighted to learn the Dutch are still as barking as ever

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the shared space idea is being mooted for exhibition rd in london.

speed humps are pretty problematic, i have to an accident audit of this aeas of leds, i'll probably suggest putting in a bunch of speed humps.

it really would help is people.kept.thei.fucking.speed.down

shit, they could even drive at the limit!

― ambrose (ambrose), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:56 (twenty-one years ago)

You should see their Air Traffic Control.

xpost

― Henry Miller, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I *do* drive at the limit, unless I'm on a motorway and I want to overtake someone going at 68mph.

Our local police publishes its speed camera unit's itinerary well in advance - they send out leaflets. "5th March, Great Coates Road Grimsby. 6th March, Clive Sullivan Way Hull" and so on. However, I'm too lazy to remember where they are on a given day.

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

My mum likes to call them 'kipping coppers' instead of 'sleeping policemen'. Wacky lady!

― alix (alix), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just invented "lying pigs", as in "pigs will lie" - which, in most cases, is true

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 13:13 (twenty-one years ago)

What if they want you to be on TV Col? Will you appear as yourself?
-- kate/papa november

I will appear, sporting my new handlebar moustache, at my suburban front gate, saying, 'it's an outrageous waste of public money!'.

― thee music mole, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Make sure you've got a bonds singlet on and stubbie in hand!

― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

speed bumps also increase traffic noise.

Especially when I'm honking my horn in protest every time I drive across one. Take that, citizens of Shady Lane!

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Next time a car roars up the street I'm going to shout, 'F*** you, Pleasant Plains, and your no-good friends!'

― thee music mole, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

See? Traffic noise.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I like to call them road-boners.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

also: I lied. I've (nor has anybody else) ever called them 'road-boners' because that's a ridiculous name.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it's time to start. Obviously.

― thee music mole, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess that if you set up a dozen or so of them in a row, I'd get a road-boner from 'em.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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